Horse-collak



UNTTED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

THOMAS HARVEY, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

HORSE-COLLAR.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 23,576, dated April 12, 1859.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, THOMAS HARVEY, of Baltimore city, in the county of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented and attached a new and Fancy Addition to a `Welted Horse-Collar, (Figure 1,) and that I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and addition of a fancy welt to a welted horse collar, its location being side by side with the usual welt and so constructed and arranged as to show a neat stitched edge which is brought close down to the face of the collar, all of which is shown in the accompanying drawings by F 2 and 3 and letters A and B.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A suitable piece of leather is required of such length and breadth as will suit the collar intended for. Said piece of leather is doubled and compressed so as to form an edge for one or more rows of stitching, and when stitched there are about two-fifths (letter C) on the under side and three-fifths (letter D) on the upper side. A piece of leather is then prepared, making the under side flat and the upper part an oval shape,

and placed between the two-fifths and threefifths sides (letter E), which is then and there confined by basting the two edges together (letter F), forming it into an ogee shape. It is then sewed in side by side with the usual welt (letter H), and when the collar is finished on account of the formation and location of the fancy belt the stitched edge is naturally brought down close to the facing of the collar (letter I) and there firmly remains without any other fastening.

The collar is but just as another welted one would be with the exception that the back is cut one half the width narrower and the facing half of the width wider than the fancy welt.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent isd The construction and addition of a fancy welt to a welted horse collar the same being perfectly adapted to its location being alongside of the usual welt and so formed as to bring it directly down on the face of the collar and thus showing a stitched edge as also being in the proper place to prevent the haine tug from cutting into the collar as herein set forth.

THOMAS HARVEY.

Titnesses CALEB lV. GREENEIELD, JOHN H. HARvEY. 

